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How Music Thinks

Morgan Grollé

Essays on musical psychology, structure and composition.

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(composing on the grid pt.v) What Repetition Remembers

So much writing about composition immediately collapses into production autobiography: I opened Ableton, loaded this instrument, used this plugin, processed it through this thing…

These composition essays are concerned with musical behavio...

2 days ago
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Yayoi Kusama and the Art of Obliteration

Everyone recognises a Kusama. Dots, pumpkins, mirrors, bright saturated colour. The recognition is instant, and instantly misleading, because it trains you to look for the wrong thing.

The question most people ask is: what do the dots mean...

10 days ago
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What a Song Can Mean

Pre-1965 Lennon was a remarkable songwriter: direct, instinctive, emotionally acute, capable of turning jealousy, loneliness and self-doubt into songs of extraordinary force and beauty. By Revolver, he was beginning to ask the songs to do s...

20 days ago
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(composing on the grid pt.iv) Four Ways Time Behaves

This essay is part of a series. [The Behavioural Grid] lays out the framework beneath everything; [The 16 Archetypes] maps the sixteen positions it's built on; [Sixteen Behavioural Starting Positions] takes them into composition; [The Compo...

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Why Some Music Feels Alive

A: You said something odd to me last week. You said a piece of music was "trying" to get somewhere.

B: I did say that.

A: But you know it isn't trying anything. It has no wants. It's air pressure. Nothing more.

B: I know that. And I'd sa...

2 months ago
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